rolling emo/pop-punk/bullshit/haircuts 2015

surprise! i love the new all time low song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYeM0nFWcqE

http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/5T1JMUJYlFCGtIDq9XJtkf

oh wow thanks forks!

well it's just one track! Gimme Chocolate

haircuts are key as fuck

As with many things I like I guess this falls into that nebulous emo/indie-rock netherzone but I'm digging the new Sidekicks album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCriE0JA94s

uhhh lol wrong embed!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFghduSsrCs

ok done with life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFghduSsrCs

i like about half the sidekicks record but maybe it'll grow on me

that doesn't really do it for me, but maybe its a grower like u say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f89NbJOcu9A

hell ya

huh that sounded pretty all right!

new QUARTERBACKS album is out and it's GREAT
http://quarterbacks.bandcamp.com

this is really nice:

http://i.imgur.com/oMZF5i3.jpg

i like that Sidekicks album but you really have to put aside the fact that it sounds like Band of Horses and The Shins had a baby and it came out Ben Bridwell's butt

i can do that bc i love both those bands' first three albums but not their fourth and oh how i long for my youth

I just realized I'm gonna involuntarily keep a close eye on this thread in 2015 in hopes of finding this year's HOME LIKE NOPLACE IS THERE.

i was surprised that there was only one of its type last year!

it sounds like Band of Horses and The Shins had a baby and it came out Ben Bridwell's butt

lol

Nate Ruess's new solo single is a big gloppy ballad and I kinda love it. Streaming here (holy shit Kevipod still exists??):
http://www.directlyrics.com/new-music-nate-ruess-nothing-without-love-full-audio-review-news.html

I just realized I'm gonna involuntarily keep a close eye on this thread in 2015 in hopes of finding this year's HOME LIKE NOPLACE IS THERE.
― alpine static, Monday, 16 February 2015 00:43 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me too. My fave album of 2014.

Today in "stuff that may or may not qualify for this thread" I am digging the new Screaming Females, and anticipating the new Dead Sara.

loving the new colleen green album

taking back sunday just rereleased happiness is with three b-sides, one of which is one of their best songs ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4a-hOYmQvo

Sun Hotel's Rational Expections -- the band's last hurrah, reportedly -- sounds pretty good to me. Garage? Emo? Rock? Pop? Don't ask me what genre anything is. Lead singer sounds quite a bit like Julian Casablancas at times.

http://open.spotify.com/album/6c8gOO1ASVnQSOsHWf7ou5

Choice cuts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Ma_lytdy0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkPERmqvljA

as far as i can tell the jeff rosenstock album completely rules

http://www.spin.com/articles/jeff-rosenstock-we-cool-album-new/

I'd never heard of Sun Hotel before, but these are good. Early Bright Eyes meets a less raucous (and ambitious) Titus Andronicus. Will be checking out the album.

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a1448228623_10.jpg

only on the first listen and i'm not sure of its staying power but so far this makeshift shelters record is a total blast, total anniversary/forecast vibes https://makeshiftshelters.bandcamp.com/album/something-so-personal

3 songs into the Makeshift Shelters and liking it. Two finds here in one week--thanks, thread!

dang that sun hotel record is up all my alleys

Listened to it once; it's solid, but I do wish it rocked a bit more.

this makeshift shelters is pretty great

the Rosenstock is terrific! reminds me of Devin Davis

reviving thread to wholeheartedly second (again) the Jeff Rosenstock album:

http://jeffrosenstock.bandcamp.com/album/we-cool

i'm seeing him with chunked next month v stoked

lol chumped

I wanna be enthusiastic about that Makeshift Shelters effort, but eh, its just mostly ok for me on first listening. Lyrics are kinda entertaining though--that song about the punker than thou guy

Digging this: http://noisey.vice.com/blog/soda-bomb-wanna-jam-album

Hah I actually love the Makeshift Shelters on first listen - everything about their aesthetic, including their name, is very early 00's to me

This is probably an unfair comparison but I thought about this song for the first time in literally 10 years after listening to Makeshift Shelters today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FcSfW9V2So

(Also it's crazy to me that this song has 100k+ viewS)

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yr not collecting albums?

sub in "tracks and selected cuts off albums mentioned on this"

I assume this goes here:

http://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/archive/2015/04/sound-and-fury-mitski

maybe too straight-up "punk" for the thread but thanks to prompting by the Propagandhi twitter account, I discovered this very rousing and catchy 2014 album by The Rebel Spell, whose singer passed recently in a hiking accident:

http://therebelspell.bandcamp.com/album/last-run

I'll third that Jeff Rosenstock album. It's a little all over the place to me but in a good fun way.

the new turnover songs sound... pretty good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7bOAE_s8UI

this one too http://www.vice.com/read/vice-exclusive-listen-to-turnovers-new-song

oh incidentally there's a new mewithoutyou album in june and the new song is the best thing they've put out in years https://soundcloud.com/runforcoverrecords/mewithoutyou-red-cow

and that turnover record is pretty good! a little samey but very suited toward the weather right now

I would like to belatedly also join the Jeff Rosenstock praise chorus, especially as the sun's out which makes it sound even better.

Can we talk about Marietta here? Cuz new album is great. Like Piebald meets Cap'n Jazz.

well that sounds right up my alley

Sorry. The I was listeing to the old record. the few tracks I heard sounded like that. The new record less so.

My friend sent me a link. New album is more lo-fi, like california fuzz stuff. Less cool

ugh why is everyone trying to be less cool

oh hey there's a new Envy album http://shop.temporaryresidence.com/trr259

holy SHIT the two tracks they have streaming sound amazing

it took a bit to grow on me, but of late i can't stop listening to the new brand new song "mene"

That one Jeff Rosenstock song always makes me want to listen to Disco 2000 :(

Is this where we would talk about the latest Good Riddence and Strung Out albums too? Because while hardly reinventing the wheel both are surprisingly return to form. The GR in particular is pretty great.

Menzingers/Chumped a perfectly calibrated concert pairing. humped's vocal disclaimer about respecting space and boundaries while having fun carried over to make for a friendly, just-raucous-enough Menzingers crowd full of hand-on-heart singalong bros (and more than a few ecstatic fangirls)

Also I hope this is a safe space to say that I may be in love with the lead singer/guitarist from Chumped

anika's a completely kickass person so i don't blame you tbh

ok phew

anyway the real lesson here is that I need to go to more emo-y shows, there's a Fireworks one coming up but iirc they're caught up in that horrible scene shit so no thx

ahhh nvm I was thinking of The Wonder Years. disregard!

fireworks are going on hiatus soon, see them imo

makeshift shelters broke up! damn

really enjoying the new Desaparecidos album. "Golden Parachutes" and "Te Amo Camila Vallejo" are jams, Oberst should stick to this gear imo

seeing rvivr tonight, excited af

oh yeah the desaparecidos record ruuuules

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wow thanks forks! lol i should post in this thread more often

the new refused record is okay!

yeah I'm giving it a spin now and it's amusingly slick

man "francafrique" is so fucking silly. the horns!

"Servants of Death" is kind of a jam tbh

applauso forks applauso

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/i-made-a-linguistics-professor-listen-to-a-blink-182-song-and-analyze-the-accent

did i ever mention the annabel record here? it was delayed for 200000 years but it's awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXudE_C17Ds

less good but still admirable is the new spraynard. they could stand to write a chorus

relistening to the last Pianos Become the Teeth record thanks to the deluxe edition - gorgeous album. completely one-note but it's a note that resonates atm. the new(?) bonus tracks are great.

oh yeah that's who i always confuse with the dear hunter

incidentally there's a new dear hunter record coming out this year

also apologies ahead of time to the uk dudes on this thread but i just discovered fightstar and they're the best band ever? they're putting out a new record in october

lol I'm listening to some new Dear Hunter tracks right now and these bands could not sound more different

yeah i have no idea why i confuse them

this is from last year, but have y'all fuckin heard of KITTYHAWK https://kittyhawkisaband.bandcamp.com/album/hello-again

are you sure you don't confuse Dear Hunter with Deerhunter?

sure

Today in "stuff that may or may not qualify for this thread" I am digging the new Screaming Females, and anticipating the new Dead Sara.

― Simon H., Monday, February 23, 2015 2:18 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah not sure dead sara belongs in here but i bet brad likes them or would? new record is good! i listen to 'something good' all the time, made my permanent workout playlist. the album closer is really good, so is 'lovesick'.

iiii loooove dead saraaaaa

ha i figured

http://www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/video/dead-sara-performance-something-good/2856575

too bad this was mixed so poorly. I'm def gonna learn that riff tonight.

i listen to 'something good' all the time, made my permanent workout playlist.

saaaaaaame!

the new wonder years songs are their best ever i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SreZW6B4gi4

finally their music feels... flexible.

I've only heard "Cardinals" but it's great, high hopes for that one

the one that's premiering tomorrow, "cigarettes & saints," is fucking massive

that one's on Spotify now! sounds really good. I like their habit of reprises.

love this - sounds very deja entendu / dashboard which afaic is all i need

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hbcBrsUuz4

guys what cany ou tell me about shorebirds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v23pvkRNQYg

oh, shorebirds are ex-latterman/ex-jawbreaker. latterman were a great band, i've never listened to shorebirds but that song is great

meanwhile the new beach slang song is wonderful. i know they don't exactly qualify for this thread but idk what other thread they'd work in

https://soundcloud.com/beachslang/bad-art-weirdo-ideas-2

shorebirds/latterman dude is matt canino who is currently in RVIVR who own massively

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6A-Cwfjl8

oh lol i didn't even make that connection. everybody's in every band

hey adam did u see the rvivr thread i started yest

i did not! good timing hoos

i love everybody itt

same

surprised that the new frank turner album is wonderful. he also doesn't belong in this thread but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB4Avdlz3lk

if you have ever wanted to hear a pop-punk cover of The tragically Hip, there's one on this Flatliners rarities comp:

https://player.spotify.com/album/5qNy5d1wDn2BQVYpsFxDtx

here's the new world is a beautiful place song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVg0lBtzgQQ

still boring. video's cool though

dogs on acid! they're good! album out in two weeks! https://soundcloud.com/jadetree/04-the-prick/s-tXzw7

gaye byers on acid vs dogs on acid.

I know which side of that minor celeb death match I would side with

once again not reaaaalllly emo but emo-adjacent: Geoff Rickly's new band sounds great http://www.stereogum.com/1824769/no-devotion-permanent-sunlight/mp3s/

oh yeah no devotion is wonderful. can't wait for that record

ok these dudes from nola named donovan wolfington are about to put out a record and it's nuts http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6670374/donovan-wolfington-how-treat-ones-you-love-premiere-tour

mostly pop-punk/pop-rock but also uh straight up hardcore and doom metal songs that kinda thread in seamlessly?

i gave that a listen last night and was half-paying attn and then all of a sudden shit went crazy

Another new Wonder Years tune, more trad emo than the others

finally caught up with beach slang and woooooooowwwwwww wow wow. love this shit.

^^ same

they're basically what i wish the Replacements sounded like. (never really could connect w/ the Mats)

the album is wonderful and i have no idea why they sent it to me so early

you are a lucky man sir

There is a new Modern Baseball song, you probably know what to expect. They're touring w/ Jeff Rosenstock and others later this year which, yes.

the Wonder Years album is quite pleasing, though I'm predictably not super into the song with the Letlive guy

i haaaate letlive, no idea why they're so popular in the scene

lol that is soooo refreshing to hear, they are basically unlistenable imo, and I really tried!

i also love a lot of shitty metalcore and screamo and they're still a real hurdle

also thk u thread for alerting me to Beach Slang, I am obsessed with "Dirty Cigarettes." also, first new male vocalist in a while I've been really struck by.

like I had no idea that what I really wanted in '15 was a perfect synthesis of mid-period Mats and late Jawbreaker

new wonder years is the first record by them i've liked almost all the way through

"cigarettes and saints" is still so massive

i actually don't mind the letlive cameo and i usually hate that dude's voice!

After a few more listens I think it could use a trim and resequence ("Saints" comes too early imo and 2-3 songs could be dropped painlessly) but it's def mostly solid. Little stuff like the backing vocals on "Song for Ernest Hemingway" adds a lot of character.

There's a pretty decent emo-pop record hiding somewhere in this fucking neverending Dear Hunter album. "Waves" is a fucking tune!

i listened to the 9 minute dear hunter song a few weeks ago and it was a super frustrating experience. "waves" however is a totally great and efficient answer to the question "what if jimmy eat world recorded with an orchestra"

http://www.mtviggy.com/articles/please-explain-what-qualifies-as-pop-punk-and-whats-just-pop

not cosigning, just sharing; i'm not much of a fan of THIS IS WHAT X IS articles in general

more opinionz 4 u: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2015/09/pop_punks_compl.html

dug that brooklyn vegan article. Never really got into the Wonder Years, but I'm gonna listen to this today.

guys the new world is song is kind of AWESOME which is completely unprecedented

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-wjAYRKW2c

this song is NUTS

mixing/mastering on the wonder years record makes it uh... very difficult to listen to

that new World Is... track doesn't do anything for me at all tbh

really wish that Wonder Years article hadn't mentioned Brand New, are they actually working on that followup or just taunting us

ok here's a record coming out tomorrow that i'm very enthusiastic about: milk by better off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NAuasc_B-Y

combination jimmy eat world/brand new vibes

thats sounds great.

http://i.imgur.com/9l6FOnO.jpg

hell ya

on a real op ivy kick today for some reason

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2014-09/1411492668_44.jpg

here's an album from last year! it's 100 percent amazing and had i heard it last year it would've been my favorite emo record of the year!

https://microwavetheband.bandcamp.com/album/stovall

getting a kind of a sense memory from posting that image so if anyone linked that record last year and i failed to check it out i am SORRY i was WRONG

vocalist sounds hella like the Manchester Orchestra guy, must be an Atlanta thing

the new front bottoms album is 1) great 2) their first great record

the new the world is a beautiful place & i am no longer afraid to die record is 1) great 2) the first thing they've done that's remotely interesting

i am pretty disposed to like it with these guitar tones and male/female dual vocals

re: Microwave, am I an unfeeling monster if I kinda hate the last verse of "Something Right"

lyrically? nah i think it's a little weird myself

mostly because I know people who seem to have wallpapered over their problems with ~babies~ and shit is hella irksome, so whenever I get to that bit my enjoyment kinda screeches to a halt

it also makes me doubly appreciate all the weird, sad lyrics about kids that pepper Daniel Romano's albums but I'll take that to the ersatz country thread, if that's a thing

well i think the song is maybe intended to represent how shitty that perspective is lol

also maybe not

the more i listen to the new world is record the more i like it, which is the opposite effect of their last album, which got blurrier as i got closer to it

so hilarious that the hedge fund asshole who raised the price of that AIDS drug is a Brand New fan

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the hedge fund asshole also invested in collect records, geoff rickly's label. they're breaking ties rn

finally got the whole beach slang album

it did not disappoint AT ALL

second time listening to it in a row. the songs on the EPs had a big sound but imo this feels /massive/ w/o that equating to overproduced

btw the new coheed record is very good, and the new fightstar record is excellent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmC-F8L-N10

im going through a really intense emo phase out of nowhere

lots of braid, knapsack, jazz june

knapsack out of nowhere has become my favorite band

Been listening to droll-ly named Wuhan band Chinese Football in advance of their GZ show: http://chinesefootball.bandcamp.com/

Brad &c, was there ever a discussion buried somewhere about the American Football revival/cult-ification // twinkle? Never heard so many people talk about The World Is A Beautiful Place... etc IRL as I have here.

probably in one of the last two threads. i mean, the sudden omnipresence of "twinkle" (ugh, still) is one of the reasons i felt confident enough to start a rolling emo thread. most of the bands who belong to that genre are really mediocre though

here is the beach slang album http://bandwidth.wamu.org/first-listen-beach-slang-the-things-we-do-to-find-people-who-feel-like-us/ so good!

these are only tangentially related to emo or pop-punk but i really, really recommend two records that came out this week: shame by petal, and sprained ankle by julien baker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99nwE6y_ik

i've been listening to this Adventures album "Supersonic Home" and I like it. Have you heard it, Brad?

wait i thought i was up to speed on what's cool, but: what is twinkle?

bands that take american football (i.e. patient yet mathy emo songs) as a primary influence. genre name derived from "twinkle daddies," which, idk man. see: dads, early the world is a beautiful place, early you blew it, foxing

i have not heard adventures but i'm gonna check them out now

really stoked to see joy buttons and witch coast tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7In1o7XhXZA

This Beach Slang record is good!

Two songs in, I was ready to describe this as a less-bratty FIDLAR, but now I'm thinking more like Fucked Up with non-scary vocalist.

the vocalist is still my fave thing about them, killer voice

looks like we're supposed to get a "U2-esque" (?!) Modern Baseball album around January to kick off next year's thread 2014-style. should be seeing them w/ Pup and Jeff Rosenstock in Dec. and will report back.

oh man i love it when emo bands try to be u2, they usually do it better

totally, it's just that I have a hard time imagining dude's vocal style on anything more expansive than what they already do

speaking of the expansive end of emo, enjoying the Foxing record reviewed on the 'Fork today

what i've heard of that record is great, need to dive into it still

honestly it sounds to me like the last Antlers record on slightly fewer downers, though I realize that's not a tempting description to most people

also reminds me a lot of the last Pianos Become the Teeth, they have the same kind of overarching pallor and I was surprised they don't share a producer

the foxing record is gorgeous and sad. "eiffel" in particular is stunning

Loving the new Beach Slang. They played here the other night and I think did like 3 jawbreaker covers (a couple just sort of improvised drunkenly) It was a ton of fun.

they were a jawbreaker cover band for fest

Worriers opened for them. That's an album people should be talking about too. Dig it lots.

relevant to thread

http://www.npr.org/2015/11/11/455317760/first-listen-the-max-levine-ensemble-backlash-baby

I like that Beach Slang record, but I think I like James Alex's public (including a 15-minute phoner I did w/ him) attitude/persona/whatever even more. For some, it may come off as corny, but he seems genuinely humbled by the attention to me. Just seems like an awesome dude, and it helps me like the record more, tbh.

Totally comes across that way when he performs live. Glad it doesn't come across affected. Corny punks are kinda endearing IMHO

http://i.imgur.com/8gneClL.png

tru

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got tickets for the academy is... almost here 10 yr anniversary tour -- stoked

have y'all heard of rolo tomassi? i saw them in the kerrang list and it turns out they are right up my alley in terms of being a crushing hardcore band a la converge with some unbelievably gentle, kinda emo moments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmIE31SLZPs

album is fucking awesome

must check that out immediately thx

mind you the last Loma Prieta record was very "Converge meets emo" and didn't work for me at all so we'll see

this also has a lot of post-rocky parts but i'm generally unbothered bc the parts that cook really fucking cook

goddamn this rules

might be my imagination but I feel like it has some of the ingenuity of the Cloud Rat album

hell yeah it does!

I listened to this earlier at my emo-loving gf's insistence and yeah it's something for everyone

of course it is possible that I might myself like (some) emo, but let's do this one at a time please

finally the band that brings everyone together

man, remember that makeshift shelters record from earlier this year? that thing was really good

ahevtn kept up with this like I wanted to this year, you have a best of list for this stuff, Brad? Or anyone else.

*I haven't

most of the records i was looking forward to in this genre ended up disappointing me but lemme see if i can scrape together a top whatever

mewithoutyou: pale horses
the front bottoms: back on top
rolo tomassi: grievances
fightstar: behind the devil's back
petal: shame
julien baker: sprained ankle
foxing: dealer
the world is a beautiful place: harmlessness
annabel: having it all
fall out boy: american beauty/american psycho
laura stevenson: cocksure
beach slang: the things we do to find people who feel like us
makeshift shelters: something so personal
allison weiss: new love
better off: milk

huh the better off record is definitely better than being last on that list, no idea why i ordered it like that

considered putting the wonder years record on that list but it really is half garbage to me at this point

i rate the beach slang, fall out boy + allison weiss. the fob is really a fantastic record and imo only suffers bc they've put out such high quality content as of late that it seems unremarkable. also like

not on tour - bad habits
title fight - hyperview
colleen green - i want to grow up
neck deep - life's not out to get you
teenage bottlerocket - tales from wyoming

thanks, friends! Gonna drop these in a playlist and check em out.

love that Title Fight album

I enjoyed the Spraynard and Red City Radio records but YMMV

oh yeah I meant to revisit the spraynard record. they're getting better all the time

Does FIDLAR fit into this categorization? Their new one and the Beach Slang are by my fave punky things from this year.

the Wonder Years album held up p well for me, esp w/ my slightly edited playlist.

and despite my best efforts I was v bored with the TWIABPAIANLATD album. I would add that about half of the Turnover album was stellar. there was a killer EP in there.

Still can't believe that the FOB came out this year; seems years old by now. Some regional stuff - self-titleds from Carb On Carb (Flying Nun-ish indie group that've slowly transitioned into 90s emo/pop-punk; kinda Rainer Maria-ish ... half of the band is from Auckland's greatest group never to record a full-length album, Moron Says What) and Chinese Football (from 成都, v.much in a twinkle/American Football style).

I'm wrapping this playlist for the year. It has been updated with a few new adds (The Max Levine Ensemble, Title Fight, Chumped, Colleen Green) and includes every track mentioned on thread that is available via Spotify's US catalogue as of EOY 2015. If I missed something or if a track comes available sometime in the future, bump here to let me know and I'll add.

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